Hawkins Curse || Steve Harrington x Reader ||

The Mall Rat

I woke up and showered, images of the lab flashed in and out of my mind. I got dressed and grabbed a waffle. "Bye dad! I'm meeting Dustin at Starcourt!" I said before running out the house and hopping on my bike.

When I arrived Dustin was already there. "Y/n!" Dustin said running towards me. "Hey! Which shop are we going to?" I asked opening the door for him. "I was thinking Scoops Ahoy so we could see Steve." Shit! I thought to myself I was suppose to meet Steve today. "Yeah sure." I said going down the escalator.

We arrived at Scoops I trailed behind Dustin not wanting to see Steve, I looked ahead. Steve wasn't there. "Hi!" I heard Dustin say to Robin. "Hi." "I'm Dustin." "I'm...Robin." "pleased to meet you. Uh is he here?" "Is who here?"

Steve came bursting through the door to the back room. "Henderson! He's back!" He shouted. Which made Dustin giggle. "I'm back!" Dustin responded "You got the job!" "I got the job!"

Robin looked at me as we watched them do a nerdy handshake.

"How many children are you friends with?" Robin asked causing their laughter to stop.

Steve looked towards me smiling awkwardly and then looking back to Dustin gesturing at Robin.

Dustin and I sat at a booth, Steve came towards us sliding a sundae towards Dustin before sitting down neat to him.

The started talking about Dustin's camp and then got onto the topic of his girlfriend.  "Hotter than Phoebe Cates no way." Steve said. "Brilliant too. And she doesn't even care that my real pearls are still coming in. She says kissing is better without teeth." "Ew." I said. "Wow..great man that's great proud of you man. That's kinda romantic." Steve said after a moment of silence.

"Do you really just get to eat as much of this as you want?" Dustin said stuffing his face with more ice cream. "Yeah I mean sure. It's not a really good idea for me though. I gotta keep in shape for the ladies." Steve said. I scoffed. "Yeah, and how's that going for you?" Robin and I said. "Ignore them." Steve said. "Robin seems cool." Dustin said. "She's not. So uh where are the other knuckleheads?" Steve asked.

"They ditched me yesterday! My first day back! Can you believe that shit!" Dustin was irritated. "Woah seriously?" "Yeah! Atleast y/n promised ot meet me here." Dustin said gesturing to me while I was eating some of the ice cream. "They're going to regret it though, big time, when they don't get to share in my glory." Dustin said causing me to lift my head up. "What glory?" Steve and I both asked. "So, last night in as trying to get in contact with Suzie and uh..." Dustin paused looking around. "I intercepted a secret Russian communication." Dustin whispered. "What?" "Uh.." Dustin then repeated himself. "Just speak louder." Steve said, I facepalmed. "I INTERCEPTED A SECRET RUSSIA  COMMUNICATION!" Dustin yelled so loud the whole world could hear him. "Jeez, that's what I thought you said,  wait what does that mean?" Steve asked. "It means we could be heroes." Dustin gestured to all of us. "Just think you could have all the ladies you want and more." I started laughing, I cleared my throat. "So what's the catch?" I asked. "No catch, I just need your help." "With what?" Steve and I asked. Dustin pulled out a Russian to English dictionary. "With translation." 

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We sat in the break room of Scoops Ahoy trying to figure out what the tape said.

I sat in the corner watching Steve pace up and down eating a banana, listening to the tape.

Dustin pressed pause and looked at Steve. "So what do you think?" He asked. "It sounded familiar." "What?" "The music at the end right there." Steve said wiping his face. Why are you listening to the music? Listen to the Russian! We're translating the Russian!" Dustin yelled.